Academia Humanities Scholarship 
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University, where he founded the Center for Antiracist Research under a five-year charter in 2020. Many hope their return signals a deeper commitment to prioritizing Black scholarship in ways that long-suffering, lesser-known Black scholars have not always experiencedeven at HBCUs.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
NOVEMBER 7, 2024
It’s a label that marks us as “unwelcome” and our scholarship as “controversial.” And while it’s incredibly unsettling, I believe there’s a powerful irony here – when we’re pressured and marginalized, our scholarship often grows stronger and more urgent. Today, the dynamics may be different, but the parallels are certainly clear.
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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 14, 2025
in counseling & human development, University of Georgia Career mentors: Dr. Darris Means, Clemson University; Dr. Tiffany J. I did it because of the implications of my scholarship around Black women, girls, my experience with social class and racial identity development, she says. She gives thanks to her mentors guidance.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 3, 2025
Jacinta Saffold In a world where academia often overlooks the nuanced narratives of Black women, the Black Womens Studies Association (BWSA) is spearheading a movement that seeks to center the lived experiences of Black women across disciplines, identities, and generations. That commitment to community-building is central to their ethos.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 22, 2023
We're sharing our scholarship but we're also sharing little bits of who we are as humans. I think it's important for folks to see the fullness of who we are as humans, that we're not just faculty or researchers writing these books. My work is not my life. I have a full life outside of that.
Inside Higher Ed
DECEMBER 11, 2022
Before we start down this slippery slope, let’s consider what we can do to address the assumptions and change the crisis narrative surrounding the humanities. Discounting tuition for the humanities reinforces already unsustainable and inequitable practices. First, the job market outside of academia is not shrinking for humanists.
Inside Higher Ed
FEBRUARY 9, 2023
” “More and more we are trying to express the value of the humanities to communities,” he said. The most valued coin of the realm remains not just the book—especially for early and midcareer scholars—but a particular kind of book known only in academia and scholarly publishing as a ‘monograph.’”
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